Re: [R] ordering a factor in boxplot output

at is probably what you want. HTH ... Peter Alspach > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tubin > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 6:40 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] ordering a factor in boxplot outp

Re: [R] ordering a factor in boxplot output

The factor order defaults to alphabetical, and boxplot follows that. Re-ordering the factor to the order of interest is probably the best way of handling it. However, if you don;t want to do that, you could perhaps also use the at= parameter in boxplot. For example x<-rnorm(50) g<-factor(rep(c("

Re: [R] ordering a factor in boxplot output

... Peter Alspach > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tubin > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 6:40 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] ordering a factor in boxplot output > > > I'm sure I'm missing som

[R] ordering a factor in boxplot output

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious in the documentation... I'm generating a boxplot boxplot(CleanValue~ApptCategory*ReportingCode,data=newfile) where ApptCategory is a factor with possible values ("New","Established") Problem is, the output orders those factors alphabetically, and I'd reall